Lasthenia glabrata |
Lasthenia glabrata subsp. coulteri |
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yellow ray goldfields |
Coulter's goldfields, goldfields |
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Habit | Annuals, to 60 cm. | |||||
Stems | erect, branched distally, glabrous or slightly hairy. |
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Leaves | linear or subulate, 40–150 × 2–3+ mm, margins entire, faces glabrous. |
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Involucres | hemispheric, 5–10 mm. |
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Receptacles | ± conic, papillate, glabrous or sparsely hairy. |
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Ray florets | 7–15; (corollas yellow) laminae oblong, 4–14 mm. |
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Phyllaries | 10–14, ± lanceolate (distinct tips ± deltate), glabrous but for apices. |
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Cypselae | gray, clavate or obovoid, 2–3.5 mm, margins not ciliate, faces glabrous, or hairy and papillate (papillae rusty or yellowish, wartlike); pappi 0. |
± hairy and papillate (papillae rusty or yellowish, wartlike). |
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Anther | appendages deltate or broadly ovate. |
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2n | = 14. |
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Lasthenia glabrata |
Lasthenia glabrata subsp. coulteri |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–May. | |||||
Habitat | Salt marshes, vernal pools, and wet, alkali flats | |||||
Elevation | 0–1000 m (0–3300 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
CA
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CA |
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). Historically, aboriginal Californians used fruits and leaves of Lasthenia glabrata for food. The subspecies are allopatric and almost identical except for their cypselae. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 21, p. 343. | FNA vol. 21, p. 343. | ||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Baeriinae > Lasthenia > sect. Hologymne | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Baeriinae > Lasthenia > sect. Hologymne > Lasthenia glabrata | ||||
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Synonyms | L. glabrata var. coulteri, L. coulteri | |||||
Name authority | Lindley: Edwards’s Bot. Reg. 21: plate 1780. (1835) | (A. Gray) Ornduff: Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 40: 74. (1966) | ||||
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